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Originally Posted by Rochard
But it's not like we can't put restrictions on the 2nd amendment - We do. Constantly.
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I'd be for requiring some form of training and safety courses before you are able to get a license to own a firearm... but in reality, all that would prevent is accidental shootings.
Someone with the intent to murder someone, will do so... Whether it be with a knife, a bat, a lead pipe, a pistol or an assault rifle. When someone has decided on murder, nothing is going to stop them.
Banning guns certainly won't because to do so only takes them out of the hands of legal owners. It does nothing to take them out of the hands of criminals. Yet, no one wants to talk about that fact.
And like I said in the other thread... you don't seem to care about people who get killed, or how many, so long as they aren't killed by a gun.
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Originally Posted by Rochard
My automobile is designed to get me from one place to another. My assault rifle is meant to kill people in bulk. Yet you insist I register my car, but you don't care about my assault rifle.
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And yet, automobiles still kill far more people than guns do. Your counter argument simply strengthens mine because a tool that is not made for killing kills and injures far more people than a tool that is specifically designed for killing.
Imagine that.
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Originally Posted by Rochard
Now we are talking.
We do need better testing to get a DL. The test should include a mental health test, and a driving test - where they take you out on the freeway to test you. And if you get more than two tickets in one year, bam, you loose your DL for a year. (By these rules I would have lost my DL multiple times.)
I'm blind as a bat, but have you ever noticed the way they position the vision tests at DMV? I am supposed to look at the chart in front of me, but there always seems to be another chart meant to be used at another position that is closer and easier to read. And the fucks at DMV honestly don't give a shit.
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It's quite difficult to get a license in quite a few states. I know in Maryland you're required to go through courses, have x amount of hours of road driving and a few other things that I can recall before you can get a license. I don't have the stats but I think most states have similar requirements. I know Michigan doesn't however as it only took me a day to get mine there after having to have my learners for 30 days I think, can't remember, but all that was required there were written and road tests...
But regardless of all that... Stupid people do stupid things. So making it even harder than it already is in what is likely most states to get a license doesn't solve the problem.
Do you think that drunk guy is going to remember all that he had to do to get his license before he gets behind the wheel? What about that guy who just worked a 16 hour shift? What about the person whose tire blew out an lost control? The person who suddenly started spinning on ice? The person intent on running someone over?